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From: napier@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Duncan Napier)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 29 Mar 1996 01:48:05 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Thomas Weihrich) writes:
>pmcdermo@cs.utexas.edu (Peter F. McDermott) writes:
>
>>Some companies just don't get it.  Valdimir Vukicevic on the XFree86-3D list 
>>requested information on Matrox's card (first message) and received the
>>second message as a reply.  Unless Matrox changes their mind on release of 
>>information, I suggest no one interested in running a free Unix system 
>>buy their products. 
>
>I perfectly understand Matrox's decision not to give away details on
>their cards and programming interface.

Yes, but can you explain why they have to be such as*holes about it? (Assuming
 this was a legitimate reply). Somebody has enquired about the possiblity
 making their product compatible with another platform; ALL these end users
 will be Matrox customers. I think that in the long run, the real losers will
 be Matrox customers. I suppose that it is Matrox's perogative as to how
 people who buy their product should use it. There may be a lesson in this:
 the same lesson that Apple and NEXT learned the hard way. 

			Duncan Napier,
			University of British Columbia.